Sunday, 1 July 2012

Polishing Hinges

I was taught you had to polish hinges before you put them on.So on my Brown Oak cabinet the hinges needed to be nice.£125 for Brusso's - I mean come on, that is just stupid.People like me do not have money like that.

So what you do is get cheap hinges then:

Glue sandpaper down onto thick MDF strips cut to the width of the abrasive roll. Then sand the hinges through this order:120 Grit Mirox (biggest mistake is to start too fine I think)240 Grit Mirox400 Grit Dry and Wet (I never have understood why they wrote it the wrong way round)1000 Grit WetPolishing strops impregnated with:1. Rottenstone (great stuff)2. Flexicut Gold polishing compound3. Brasso - then clean up with a cloth.

Hinge top left before polishing.I even polish the heads of every screw, in alignment with the slot of course. But you don't need to be so aggresive when you start!

Did I forget to mention any of the following?

10 Hinges60 Screws

+ Spares (2 Hinges + 10 Screws)

I have chronic pain,I hate hinges,Doing this has cast me deeper into the pit of pain, but not quite as far as using this stupid computer everyday has.

They look really nice and I don't care if they are not perfect because I gave it enough of a go to justify to myself that any more effort would be too far up the exponential curve of time against perfection, that area where extra time = barely any more perfection. I care too little for this area now - not like when I was younger, but I older than that now.